D-17D advice wanted

If you put a turbo on your engine, you would have the same thing as a D19. It sounds like you need to investigate a little more to find out what all would be needed for a rebuild on yours and compare to what it would cost to by a rebuilt engine to put in.

The D-19 engine had some minor differences I believe like water pump on the block and a little different cylinder head internally. I figured that to rebuild mine I am looking at 2000 assuming no machine shop work.

My engine has the spin on oil and two cartridge fuel filters can that be right or has it been swapped before.

If you do a full overhaul on it I would bet you'll have over $4000.00 dollars in it. With valve grind, crank turned, and new clutch. Just finished are D19D for about $4300.00. Are injector tips where good , so that saved us about $240.00 dollars. Just my two cents

Edited by Bryan - 30 Aug 2010 at 3:14pm

I'm in the middle of overhauling a 58 D17D. The comment about having $4K in it is pretty close to what I have so far. I would say have closer to $5K available to build one. From what I have done/seen so far is the Buda engine is probably a good engine if it is properly maintained, especially the cooling system. The counter bores that the sleeves set in erodes away if the coolant is neglected. My original block had rust issues to the point that the counterbores needed sleeved. It also had cracks around 10 head bolt holes. When the counter bores erode, the sleeves drop and the head gasket starts to leak. Instead of trying to repair my original block, I found a 262 gas block from a combine. Somebody took care of the coolant because there is no rust in the water jackets. Even though it was in very good condition, it still had to have the counter bores re cut. It's not so much that the parts are crazy high priced, it's the machine work required to fix one correctly. Talk to Bill at Sandy Lake Imp. Not long ago he had a complete running D262 from an early D17 that he described to me as a very good runner. He told me $2800 + shipping back then.

Denis. If you really want a D17 diesel you can make the investment and be alright. If you think in a few years you are gonna sell it for what you have in it after a $5000 rebuild. Stop now.

I forgot to add that the D17 rear end would probably not stand up to the D19 turbocharged motor very well for plowing or other heavy work.

Fix it.  $5000 is a small price to pay for a 50-60hp tractor.  Price a new one.

I'm with ac45 in thinking that a 433 would be a nice swap into a D-17. The 615 industrial tractor which is really a D-15 used the 200 cu.in. diesel the same as the HD-4 dozer. It is the same block as the 433 so it can and has been done. Should be easier in a D-17 because of the extra room.